Tag: Various

Quotes February 25, 2023

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.
Raquel Welch,
actor
1940-2023
 
 
 
 
None of us know what a year may bring forth.
Harriet Jacobs,
writer, abolitionist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
There’s always a pastness operating in the present. And it has effects and consequences.
When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.
Cornel West,
philosopher, educator, social activist, writer
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
The brightest skies are often overshadowed by the darkest clouds.
Harriet Jacobs
writer, abolitionist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
“Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn – and those are all good things.”
Dick Van Dyke
 
 
 
 
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius – 121-180 – Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
You’re going to go through tough times. That’s life. But I say, “Nothing happens to you. It happens for you.” See the positive in negative events.
Joel Osteen
Pastor-Televangelist-Author
 
 
 
 
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.
Esther Hicks
Inspirational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati -1940-2012
Spiritual Teacher-Activist-Author-Artist
 
 
 
 
Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
Jodi Picoult
American Writer
 
 
 
 
The vibration of gratitude attracts more positive things into your life.
Cherie Roe Dirksen
Self-empowerment Author
 
 
 
 
Problems fade away when you start facing them with positivity in your soul.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes February 13 & 14, 2023

You know what a very famous songwriter told me? ‘Hey, nobody whistles the lyrics, you know?’
The reality is that my basic love, all the way through, was the music.
Burt Bacharach,
composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist
1928-2023
 
 
 
 
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results.”
Chuck Yeager
 
 
 
 
“It is a little dark still, but there are warnings of the day and somewhere out of the darkness, a bird is singing to the Dawn.”
Excerpt from Representative American Negroes, an essay by Paul Laurence Dunbar
 
 
 
 
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”
John Locke
 
 
 
 
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy,
writer
 
 
 
 
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.”
Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
 
 
 
 
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin – Author
 
 
 
 
“Gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.”
James Dean
 
 
 
 
“A bell is no bell ’til you ring it, a song is no song ’til you sing it. And love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay. Love isn’t love ’til you give it away.”
Oscar Hammerstein II from “Sound of Music”
 
 
 
 
“Don’t forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.”
Shirley Temple
 
 
 
 
Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.
Beyonce – Singer-Songwriter-Actress

Quotes February 04 & 05, 2023

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.
Bessie Coleman,
civil aviator
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Walt Disney – 1901-1966 – Entrepreneur-Animator-Film Producer
 
 
 
 
Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.
Lisa Nichols – Author-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.”
Robert Frost
 
 
 
 
“Understanding and believing are not the same thing.”
Gertrude Stein
 
 
 
 
I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky and I was missing it.
The only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you’re talking about.
Eve Babitz,
writer, visual artist
 
 
 
 
Remember a future / from another dream / and hold on.
Claudia Rankine
 
 
 
 
That’s the thing that’s worth playing. Bringing the message.
Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.
Judd Hirsch,
actor
 
 
 
 
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
Willa Cather,
writer
 
 
 
 
Whoever listens to a witness becomes one in turn.
Elie Wiesel,
writer, educator, political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor
Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
 
 
 
 
When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That’s where your power is.
Unknown

Quotes January 28 – 31, 2023

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy – 1828-1910 – Author-Novelist
 
 
There are many paths but only one journey.
Naomi Judd – 1946-2022 – Singer-Actress
 
 
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Evan Esar – 1899-1995 – Humorist-Writer
 
 
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes January 26, 2023

“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
Immanuel Kant
 
 
 
 
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell – 1912-1998 – Politician
 
 
 
 
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Dale Carnegie – 1888-1955 – Writer-Lecturer
 
 
 
 
“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.”
Mary Tyler Moore
 
 
 
 
“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
Paul “Bear” Bryant

Quotes January 21, 2023

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin – 1809-1882 – Naturalist-Geologist-Biologist
 
 
 
 
Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.
Chanda Kochhar – Former CEO of ICICI Bank
 
 
 
 
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Gloria Steinem
 
 
 
 
“Failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing.”
Buzz Aldrin
 
 
 
 
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
Cecil B. DeMille
 
 
 
 
Life is often more complex than the stories we like to tell about it.
Daniel Kahneman
 
 
 
 
Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman

 
 
 
 

Quotes January 19, 2023

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
Alexander Graham Bell
 
 
 
 
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
Aldous Huxley
 
 
 
 
“You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda
 
 
 
 
“If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Willie O’Ree
 
 
 
 
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
1915-1973
Writer
 
 
 
 
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
Roy T. Bennett
1939-2014
Author
 
 
 
 
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926
Poet-Novelist
 
 
 
 
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
1874-1965
Former British Prime Minister
 
 
 
 
Being happy never goes out of style.
Lily Pulitzer
1931-2013
Fashion Designer
 
 
 
 
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
If you’re completely honest the way you go about your life, it just gives you back happiness.
Tatjana Patitz,
model
1966-2023
 
 
 
 
Observing is more interesting than being observed. You learn about yourself by seeking out others.
Luigia “Gina” Lollobrigida,
actor, photographer, artist
1927-2023
 
 
 
 
Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can’t organize accidents.
Jeff Beck,
guitarist
1944-2023
 
 
 
 
I was always positive. I can’t be negative. If you are positive in life you will do good things.
Luigia “Gina” Lollobrigida,
actor, photographer, artist
1927-2023
 
 
 
 
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
Dolly Parton

Quotes January 14, 2023

The only thing more challenging than pursuing the highest version of yourself is not pursuing the highest version of yourself.
Dan Koe – Freelance Creator
 
 
 
 
Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt – 1884-1962 – Former First Lady of the United States
 
 
 
 
“Being funny is a very serious business.”
Soupy Sales
 
 
 
 
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.”
James Joyce
 
 
 
 
“All that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
Lewis Carroll

Quotes January 09, 2023

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein – 1879-1955 – Physicist-Nobel Prize Winner
 
 
 
 
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein – 1887-1982 – Pianist
 
 
 
 
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde – 1854-1900 – Poet-Playwright
 
 
 
 
Personalityness. There’s a lot of traffic in my head, and it’s two-way.
Jonathan Lethem,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
Joan Baez
 
 
 
 
“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
Nikola Tesla
 
 
 
 
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”
John Kenneth Galbraith

Quotes January 05, 2023

I don’t want to climb another mountain. I want instead to sit in a sunny field and admire the very gifted women — and OK, some men too — who will be taking my place.
Barbara Walters,
broadcast journalist, television personality
1929-2022
 
 
 
 
The ambition should always be to play an elegant game.
If I could do it over again, I wouldn’t change many things. Not for myself.
Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento),
professional football player, minister of sports of Brazil
1940-2022
 
 
 
 
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
Erich Fromm
 
 
 
 
“What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.”
William Wordsworth
 
 
 
 
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
TS Eliot
 
 
 
 
“The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off—it’s with you all the time.”
Alvin Ailey
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
Teddy Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives … not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman,
journalist, columnist, speaker, commentator
 
 
 
 
If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.
Beyonce – Singer-Songwriter-Actress
 
 
 
 
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni – Poet-Writer-Civil Rights Movement Supporter
 
 
 
 
The best time for new beginnings is now.
Unknown